Guatemala - Suchitan - Coffea Diversa - Dilla Alghe Yellow - Washed

Originating from the botanical garden of Coffea Diversa, this lot highlights the Dilla Alghe Jaune variety, a rare Ethiopian wild variety with a singular genetic heritage.

Coffea Diversa is a pioneering project founded in the early 2000s by José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernández, with a radically different vision from traditional coffee cultivation. Conceived as a botanical coffee garden, the project aims to preserve, observe, and enhance the genetic diversity of coffee through the cultivation of hundreds of rare botanical varieties. Today, Coffea Diversa houses the world's largest private collection of botanical coffee varieties, with over 800 specimens, of which only a portion is currently produced as micro-lots.

The Dilla Alghe is an Ethiopian wild variety originating from the vicinity of the town of Dilla, in southwestern Ethiopia. It is distinguished by its marked vegetative development: tall trees, wide spacing between branches and between buds, and young shoots with reddish hues. Its beans are long and large-sized, reflecting this particular plant structure.

Like many wild varieties, the Dilla Alghe exhibits very low yields and a high susceptibility to diseases, which severely limits its production and enhances its rarity. These characteristics make it a demanding variety to cultivate, but with sensory potential closely linked to its unique genetic heritage.

José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernández launched the Coffea Diversa venture in the early 2000s with a radically different vision from traditional coffee cultivation. Rather than a mono-varietal farm, they envisioned a true coffee botanical garden, dedicated to the preservation, experimentation, and showcasing of coffee's genetic diversity.

Today, Coffea Diversa holds the world's largest private collection of coffee botanical varieties, with over 800 cataloged specimens, a large portion of which are still in the observation or selection phase. This unique collection constitutes a true living conservatory, conceived as a source of sensory innovation for specialty coffee.

Among this exceptional diversity, approximately 25 rare and exotic botanical varieties are currently produced as micro-lots, allowing for the exploration of unprecedented aromatic profiles, directly derived from the coffee's genetics.

Coffea Diversa coffees are cultivated on two main farms, located in Guatemala and Costa Rica. The Costa Rica farm, situated in the south of the country in Biolley, as well as in the Central Valley and Tres Ríos, is located between 1,250 and 1,700 meters above sea level. The coffees there are cultivated under shade and processed with a wide diversity of fermentation and processing methods.

More than a Producer, Coffea Diversa now stands as a key player in research and taste exploration, where each coffee is the result of patient work on genetics, Terroir, and processing. As they like to say: Coffea Diversa is not a coffee farm, but a coffee garden.